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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29968	Tyrannicall-government anatomized, or, A discovrse concerning evil-councellors being the life and death of John the Baptist : and presented to the Kings most excellent Majesty by the Author.; Baptistes. English	Buchanan, George, 1506-1582.; Milton, John, 1608-1674.	1642 (1642)	Wing B5298; ESTC R4582	22,804	31

with ire weep and exclaime and sharply reprehend but no reliefe by wrath or teares I gaine for all my words are scattered by the winde Mal. If with your husband a meet power you had would he have born your wrongs thus unrevenged Or rather may I speak more truly his Qu. Thou feest the people how they be inclinde Perhaps by this imprisonment the King The Baptists eager spirits think to •uaile and to allay his boldnesse Malch If you suppose imp•isonment and bonds Can bridle the fierce spirit of this thiefe Your Highnesse erres The rage of savage beasts That break their Dens and libertie regain Is much more vehement them theirs that range In woods or desert Mountaines Being freed What will not he attempt Whose •etters now the people reveren•e wrath once •rovokd is kindled not a•laid by taunts and scorn the haughty spirit is 〈◊〉 f•ry bor• Qu. This benefit should rather quench it quite For that by royall mildnesse he is free Who by his own perversnesse might have perished Mal. What your esteem a benefit he holds an injury and will more oft remember that you imprison'd him then set him free Qu. A rough and crabbed na•ure thou relat'st Malch This in most men is naturally graff'd What favour you afford is quickly lost but what disfavor no man doth forget Good turnes if born in memory with bad All men well neere doe hate Think that the Baptist as oft as he remembers your Desert will not his crime forget and still believe he is not loo•e from that But in your thoughts a guilty man by soule ambi•ion freed His paine remitted and you wrath supprest but for a time Qu. Yet courtesie prevailes to mitigate fierce natures Malch What with long use is hardned to the worst We much more easily may break then bend Qu. What doe you then advise me in this case Malch I'le shew you quickly may I be believ'd Qu. And what your counsell I will not delay Malch By seeking agitating and providing not fitting still great things are brought to passe Qu. If seeking agitating and providing nought may availe 'tis better to sit still then to make work in vaine and be to others a mocking stock Malch Where strength oft cannot labour overcomes a tall Oake is not suddenly born down nor does the warring Ram at one assault overthrow the wals what often you suppose cannot be finished is in time dispatched• And importunity doth overcome what reason sometimes cannot therefore seeke solicite Herod mingle teares with suite wrath with monitions flattring words with brawles work and intreat him by what meanes you can embracing all occasions every where But if by such plaine course you cannot speed set snares and use deceit for mine own part I am resolv'd untill we finde successe in our desig•ments never to desi•t Cho. Envie at length and bitter grie•e incens'd by impious F•ries on this pious Prophet have cas• the venome of their cruelty from thence fierce calum•ny and false de•raction joyned with fell cruelty by cursed fraud maintaine the battell from hence harmlesse truth s•pported by no guard their threats contemnes So many weapons doe one head assault so many su•tle drifts doe menace death to this young man yet like the hardy Holme with North-east wi•ds assaulted or a Rock that's •eaten by the Seas returning flood •e with no fear is mov'd O power divine by all men to be hono•'d candid Truth whom neither force of armes with trembling feare nor fraud with all her projects can depell from her firme station or unmov'd estate The grievous changes of unstable fortune th•u only fearest not and dost arme thy breast obnoxious to no chances with a strength insuperable and th•• impartiall hand of the three Ladies both of life and death for bidst us to begriev'd at But this Prophet I am too slow to meet with and relate the ruthful'st newes that ever pierc'd his eares yet see he stands before the prison doore O thou more holy then thy holy Parents and th'only •cred it of old innocence Now for thy safetie in due time provide The Rabine Malchus privately intends deceit against thee and King Herods wife unwitting what to doe is almost mad The Courtiers flatter her the King diffembles what he conceives and others twixt the teeth mutter as those that dare not speak the truth Now is your finall perill Ioh. And what's that Cho. To escape death you shall have much to doe Ioh. Of eminent evills I hold that the sum Cho. Then which none greater can a man befall Ioh. As Tyrants power and deceit may cease Times length may bear it of its own accord Which evill men do f•ar good men do wish Cho. But your own safety though you doe neglect consider ours and that high spirit of yours a while remitting sue for Herods mercy and make some friends I hope he will not prove inexorable Ioh. Doe not I doe this Cho. That minde God grant you Ioh. To sue there's no need for that minde •ath been long now with my blood the Tyrant hasts to satisfie his wrath Neither doe I rcsist how am I able rather to pacifie this bloody King Then when the same things we will not and will Cho. Good words I pray Ioh. Why then report you thus and thus advise me ••y there are two Kings and they on both sides two things bid me doe that be repugnant The one King is earthly cruell and mischievous who threatens death and hath a power my body to destroy The other heavenly mercifull and milde forbids me death to fear and a reward proposeth to my tourage being able in flames inevitable to torment body and soule Now seeing these two Kings doe differ in command give mee advice wh•ther I ••all obey Cho. If now •ccasion offerd you omir Herod will never after be appeas'd but God is ever easie to be pleas'd Ioh. Gods anger the more gently it doth rage the more severely punishment req•ires being once mov'd Cho. So death which God would have all mortals feare doe you disdaine the body with the soule he in a mutuall bond of love hath knit lest unadvisedly some cause be offred that may their holy fellowship disjoyne Ioh. Death I disdain nor but by momentany shun that erernall and the use of light which God hath given me at his command I willingly surrender Cho. Will you then being a Parent thus forsake your Orphans Ioh. He who believes that God his Father is shall never •eean Orphan Cho. Can the teares of all your friends and kindred whom you leave unto a spightfull Tyrant move you nothing Ioh. I leave them not but they mee rather leave for truly unto death I run the way from the beginning of the world ordain'd yea all men that enioy the gift of life are born to die and and wee are all restrain'd with one con•ition we tend all to death and thither every day doth surely lead us God will have death a pennance to the bad and to the good a Port the utmost

bounds of a long iourney and the Gate that leads to the beginning of a longer life that sends us rather born againe then dead unto a glorious house of endlesse light This is to man from prison a relcase and a free passage to life wanting death this way the whole flock of the Fathers went and all must follow them what man is he that having once begun a race to run desires not instantly the goale to gaine who by night wandring in the stormy Sea refuseth shelter in a quiet Port What exile straying or'c the Desert Hills of a strange Countrey will bee discontent into his own to make a quick returne I therefore having overpast my way suppose my selfe come to the very goale Now almost quitted from the sea of life I view the Haven from a forraign soyle home I return to see my heavenly father that father who with waters bounds the earth invested earth with Heaven he that rules the certain courses of the moving Sphear who only all things made guides and preserves to whom all things both quick and dead doe live even as the flame it's Globes doth upwards roll waters perpetually downw•rd• fall and all things do proceed to their own foment my 〈◊〉 from heavendeso•nded labours now a habitation in eternall light 〈◊〉 gaine with him that all things did create whom not to see is death life to behold If Caucasus rough-growne with hoary frost the Ayre with Tempests and the Sea with stormes and the whole Region with excessive heate should all resist me thither I would goe to see so many Leaders Prophers Kings and pious Iudges shall I not make way though with a thousand deaths I be oppos'd My spirit therefore from this body freed this carnall prison thither longs to flye Even whither all the world betimes or late shall be dispatch'd For long life I conceive is nothing but a gentle Servitude in a hard painfull prison O sweet death that art of heavy Toyles the sole Release the Haven where all grief and trouble cease yet unto few men profitable known Receive this shipwrackt body in thy bosome and bring it where eternall peace abides whither no impious violence deceit or ealumny shall follow it Chor. O thou thrice happy in this constancy of mind O wretches that we are whom foolish feare debarres the sweet Society and sight of true felicity Then since thou hold it what's needfull to be done to thee we wish eternall health and Farwell How are the minds of men in wayes unlike turn'd by discordant strite of no offence he that is guilty doth not feare to dye he that deserves to dye if with vaine threats death lightly greet him with degenerate feare growes pale and trembles As the wicked wight shunnes death with heavy heart so he that's good of death des••ous thorough flames and flouds o're deveous Rocks all dangers and E•••remes freely precipitates his noble Soule For sundry benefits to death belong to evill men unknowne a happy life is Fates Associate neither doe the Good totally dye but still their better part contemnes the greedy fire and Mounts aloft to its own Country Heaven Amongst the Saints a certain Habitation doth attend soules that are harmlesse but the guilty G••ost by snake haird Furies in a brimstone lake with greedy C•rberus his hungry I• wes and Tan•alus with plenty never fill'd is evermore affrighted gnawne and whipt from hence comes feare to evill men from thence good hope to good men even while their mindes appeating prodigall of brittle breath hasten to prosecute unfading life O •yren potent in bewitching baits Life that abhorring goodnesse dost affect what's fraudulent and with thy flattering might precludst the neighbout passage of our sinnes and shutst the Haven of perperuall peace Where neither Martiall clamor doth affright nor Trumpets with hoarse clangor doe 〈◊〉 nor pilling pi••tes terifie by •e• nor cruell theives beset the silent grove nor my one made 〈…〉 Felix that alone with pleasant case he may himselfe besot the poore and weakeore-whelmes with bloudy flaughter neither he that for vaine Titles may exchange the lives of the rude Commons but where simple vertue with faire prosperity and tranquill rest possesseth all and day can never learne to end in darknesse nor life ever know of any fi•erall nor Ioy of griefe O thou sweet freindship of this carnall house and thou too lovely prison of our life Now now at length free from bewitching Bonds the heaven-borne soule of man which too unmindefull of her owne Country joyfull in the yoke of her d•generate foule nuptiall bed and with somniferous I ethe• poysoning sloth inebriated in thy lapthou huggst O thou deceitfull covering of day into thy ashes vanishing returne That to her country Heaven the soule reslord may fill it selfe with becames of purest light So from all sorrow shee shall be enlargd And of all troubles thou by death dischargd The Fifth part The Queene The Rabine Malchus hath my hopes beguilde and Herod hath himself with mee his Queene fearing the rumors of the babling crew through his owne yanity alike betrayd Next for my daughter what shee may effect I greatly feare the King did promise herat his great banquet that he would reward her danceing feates which gave him high content with whatsoever shee of him should aske Now unto mee the girle hath past her word that shee would aske of him none other boone but in a dish to have the Baptists head And she will have it certainly shee will If Horods mind be not to me unknown The peoples hatred I conceive on mee hee will divert himselfe remaining free And I will beare it when the deed is done and with willing heart with joy of my revenge weighing their hate and with my gaine my staine For women to be cruell 'tis a shame a shame indeed unlesse more shame it were that of such nature there are many Kings But H•rod and my daughter doe appeare the ncor•r my hope is my feare the 〈…〉 doth burne Herod Daughter Queene Her And hast thou 〈◊〉 sufficiently 〈…〉 Daught 〈…〉 enough and royal Her• Never fear things that are 〈◊〉 establish• with my faith and before witnesses aske halfe my kingdome it shall be thine no power can avert him that is willing Daugh We shall shortly see what thing it i• Hero 'Tis certain ask it now Daugh Your Kingdome Sir I need not which I deeme even as mine own while you possesse the Crown as if I held the Scepter but I aske a thing both meet and easie Hero Thou thy selfe not I art in the fault thou hast it not Daugh Give me the Bapists head then in this Charger Hero What words are these by thee so rashly vented Daugh Not rashly neither Hero Thou demand'st a gift that ill become a Virgin Daugh To destroy an enemy is no uncomly deed Hero Is therefore he an enemy and worthy of a Kings wrath Daugh He's worthy of such wrath who by his crimes deserves it Hero What redresse may I then